Former CIA Case Officer John C. Kiriakou is facing 30 months in the federal pen. According to the New York Times, Kiriakou’s crime was passing the identity of an undercover CIA officer to a journalist.

Kiriakou is being railroaded to send a message to the
intelligence community: Don’t mess with 9/11 torture, the framing of
patsies, and the forced confessions!

As VT readers know, the intelligence community leaks “classified”
information like a proverbial sieve. (As it should – almost all
“classified” information ought to be made public.) Of the tens of
thousands of leaks that occur each year, only a tiny fraction are ever
punished, legally or extra-legally.

So when a former CIA Case Officer is sent to prison for a relatively innocuous leak, we must ask why was this guy singled out?